Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze’s philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation
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Illuminates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze’s thinking on art, philosophy, and the sciences, generating new understanding of the relation between chaos, creativity, and thought
Offers detailed analyses of Deleuze’s cosmological theories in relation to ancient philosophy, key figures in the continental tradition, and important discoveries and innovations in the contemporary sciences
Conducts innovative analysis of several cosmological theories in science, including quantum theory, loop quantum gravity, and string theory, in relation to Deleuze’s key concepts of time, creation, variation, chance, and chaos
Highlights how addressing the cosmological from multiple disciplinary, theoretical, and aesthetic perspectives is crucial to the genesis of the new and the mutual revival of the disciplines
This edited collection investigates how Deleuze’s interventions into cosmological thinking have transformed, challenged, or influenced, as well as been influenced by, the ways that cosmology has been thought and determined from the perspective of the philosophic tradition as well as from the perspective of science and arts. These sixteen essays apply Deleuze’s cosmological perspective to a range of scientific, metaphysical, philosophical, and aesthetic issues, illustrating the intertwinement of the various modes of thought (philosophy, science and arts) on a cosmic scale, which lead to new ways of understanding relational beings, time/space, processes of variation, folding, potentiality and creativity. By integrating the observations and speculations of quantum theory, as well as other areas of cosmological thinking, with Deleuze’s cosmological vision, we find that philosophy, sciences and arts can provide each other with mutual inspiration, pushing the boundaries of thought to the outer reaches of the known and beyond.
Introduction: Toward a New Cosmic Sensitivity Janae Sholtz and Alain Beaulieu
Part I. Creative Cosmology: Chaos and the Cosmic 1. What is Invention? Deleuze and Guattari and the New Dorothea Olkowski 2. Deleuze, an Unwitting Milesian? Arnaud Villani 3. Cosmic Triptych: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Exploration of the Transistantial, the Fleeting and the Akoúômorphical Antoine Renzo 4. A Plastic Vortex of Spinning Waste Macarena Rioseco
Part II. Infinite Cosmologies: Perspectives, Foldings & Time 5. Points of View: Deleuze, Leibniz and the New Cosmology Debjyoti Sarkar 6. The Lily of the Field Sings the Glory of the Heavens: The Cosmos of the Fold Brian Noonan 7. Deleuze’s The Fold and String Theory Ewa Szumilewicz 8. Aion/Chronos and Living Time? Russell Duvernoy
Part III. Cosmologies of the Quantum 9. Deleuze and Decoherence: Approaching the Measurement Problem through Intensity Michael J. Ardoline 10. The Chaosmic of the Quantum, with Gilles Deleuze Arkady Plotnitsky 11. Immanence, Process and Relationalism in Loop Quantum Gravity Martin Calamari 12. Zig-Zagging Through the Deleuzian Virtual: The Dark Universe of Diagrams, Cosmology, and Quantum jan jagodzinski
Part IV. Comparative Cosmologies 13. Caught Between a Sufficient Cosmos and a Chaosmos: Laruelle, Deleuze and Guattari on Philosophy, Cosmology and the Real Chantelle Gray 14. Biological Philosophy and Geophilosophy in the Shadow of Cosmology: Reading Canguilhem with Deleuze and Guattari Samuel Talcott 15. Modality as virtuality versus modality as possibility: Gilles Deleuze and David Lewis Ilona Schweitzer 16. Deleuze, Whitehead and Process Cosmology Keith Robinson
Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University and Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg Philosophy Department. Sholtz received the Senior Neag Scholar award and the Junior Neag Scholar award from Alvernia University. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh University Press), co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, and French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben. She is an internationally recognized feminist and Deleuzian scholar, publishing on social justice and gender; aesthetics, affect, and desire; and Deleuze and the cosmic, currently writing on Deleuze, new materialism and a new image of thought.
Alain Beaulieu is EmeritusProfessor of Philosophy at Laurentian University, Canada. He has a Doctorat de 3e cycle in philosophy from the Université de Paris 8 with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze et la phénoménologie (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2nd ed. 2006). He published Cuerpo y acontecimiento. La estética de Gilles Deleuze (Letra Viva, 2012),Gilles Deleuze et ses contemporains (Harmattan, 2011) and (co)edited the following works: Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics (Lexington, 2014), Abécédaire de Martin Heidegger (Sils Maria/Vrin, 2008), Michel Foucault and Power Today (Lexington, 2006), Gilles Deleuze. Héritage philosophique (PUF, 2005), as well as Michel Foucault et le contrôle social (PU Laval, 2nd ed. 2008).
